Stalk-cutter



(No Model.)

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STALK' CUTTER.

Patented July 17, 1883.

Invenior: W

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMMANUEL T. COOK, or 011100, TEXAS.

STA LK-CUTTE R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,460, dated July 17, 1883,

Application filed December 9, 1882.

panying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side view of my cutter. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view, and Fig. 4 is also a detail view.

This invention hasrelation to machines for cutting cornstalks'jand weeds; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, as hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the shoe or runner, which is centrally arranged, and is provided with oblique wings B, extending outward and rearward from its front end, and thereby giving the .machine an angular or pointed form. To the front end is attached the front knife, 0, which is of pointed angular form. The wings B are rabbeted on the outside of their upper surfaces to form seats for the oblique side knives, D, these being secured to said seats by means of cap-plates E, and suitablescrews or bolts and nuts. 1

To the runner are secured the front standard, F, and rear standard, G, which support the upper longitudinal bar, H, of the frame. To

the front and rear portions of this bar are sc-' cured, respectively, the front and rear transverse bars, K and K, which are slotted near their ends, as indicated at a. To these crossbars are fastened centrally the cross-springs L and L, the arms of which rise over the ends of the cross-bars, and are provided with endslots, 11, corresponding to the slots a of the cross-bars.

P P indicate the lateral guide and pressure bars, diverging, as indicated at c, in'front, to

(NomodeL) gather the stalks orweeds to the knives of .the machine, and diverging in rear, as indicated at d, forming pressure-bars above and in direction parallel, or nearly so, to the side knives, and designed to press the stalks or weed-stems to the side knives as the machine moves forward. The guide and pressure bars 1? are suspended from the cross-springs L L, by means of vertical arms 0, which extend upward from the pressure-bars through the perforations a of the cross-bars, and through the perforations or slots 7) of the springs L L. The upper ends of these vertical arms 0 are provided with series of perforations arranged in vertical lines, and designed to receive the bearing-pins h, whichrest on the springs and support {the pressure-bars. These pressurebars are therefore adjustable, and can be placed at any desired height to suit the work.

In this construction it will be observed that the pressurebars have, because of the springs LL and the arms 6, considerable elasticity and operate with spring-pressure, which tends to push the stalks or stems toward the knives with a succession of impulses, and yet allows the bars to yield when necessary to prevent them from being injured.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a stalk and weed cutter,the combina-' arms 6, passing through the slots of the transverse bars, and connected tosaid springs, substantially .as specified. 3

2. In a stalk and weed cutter, the combination of the runner frame, having oblique wings and front and side knives, the standards F G and bar H, the cross-bars K K, crosssprings L L, and adj ustable pressure and guide bars I? P, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EMMANUEL THOMAS COOK, Witnesses:

S. P. H. KnLsEY, D. CAMPBELL. 

